Stars and Planets

The Birmingham Stars and Planets group focuses in three areas: massive stars, exoplanets, and compact objects (white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes).

Dr. Ian Stevens leads the effort to explore massive stars, combining simulations and
observations of the powerful winds which are ejected from the surface of the brightest stars in our Galaxy.

Dr. Stevens is also engaged in searches for exoplanets, that is, planet around stars other than our Sun,
using the slight dimming caused by planetary transits, and searching of radio emission, such as that
generated in our own solar system by the magnetosphere of Jupiter.